With the release of their latest album, The Guga Hunters of Ness, and embarking on a tour around the UK this week, what better time to ask the Colchester trio of the Dead Rat Orchestra to provide us with a mix. There’s a preview of the track ‘The Geisha and the Guga’ on Soundcloud, and more details of their tour can be found on their website.
Robin Alderton of the band had this to say about this mix: “Each member of the band contributed 5 tracks to a playlist that sums up, or maybe suggests where we have come from, what individual influences have gone on to impact, collectively, what we do in the band. ”
1. One flew over the cuckoo’s nest (Closing Theme) – Jack Nitzsche
2. Shamas-ud-doha, badar-ud-doja – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
3. Funkier than a mosquito’s tweeter – Nina Simone
4. Bongo man – Mystic Revelation of Rastafari
5. Roumanian folk dances for orchestra, sz.68:iv. Horn Dance (from Bisztra) – Budapest Festival Orchrestra & Ivan Fischer
6. My mule “Grey” – Emanuel Dunn
7. Meeintg At Offsite Vol 1 – Ami Yoshida & Brett Larner
8. The Great Judgement Morning – Leonard Emanuel
9. Things will never be the same – Black Dice
10. Pax – Philip Jeck
11. Sarajevo – Max Richter
12. Tamlyn – Mike Waterson
13. Indian War Whoop – Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music
14. I bid you good night – Joeseph Spence
15. Amazing Grace (Toil & Peaceful Life) – Molasses
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